Zaien's Portfolio

1. Describe your story and what real-life situation it modeled?

It was a story about a submarine two friends Zaien and Siwoo exploring the Mariana trench, the deepest point on Earth, and then getting stranded in a air bubble cave at bottom of the trench 11 km deep.

To read the full story please click the following link:https://saschina-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/personal/devon_fisher_saschina_org/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7B9425EFBE-2E8E-4E28-A989-DFB9D51E1CFA%7D&file=Siwoo%20Lee%20-%20L4%20Unit%202%20Design%20a%20Story%20Problem%20-%204163122.docx&action=default&mobileredirect=true

2. What part of your project are you most proud of? Why?

I think our story has a very interesting plot because it very much suits a piecewise function graph and it is also very creative.

3. What was the hardest part of creating your piecewise function?

The hardest part of creating my piecewise function was finding all the intervals of increase and decrease and the slopes of every dive and ascend.

4. If you could revise one part of this project, what would you improve and how?

I would try to support the reasoning with explicit numerical evidence and show all steps in their calculations.

5. What did this project help you understand better about piecewise functions?

It helped me understand how to incorporate piecewise function in real life, and how to use specific numerical evidence to show what happened.

This Unit we learned about Linear Equations and Relationships.

1. I chose Question 1 and 2 as evidence of my best thinking because, it suggest that I understand functions because I got all the answers correctly.

2. I chose Question 3 and 4 as evidence of my thinking because it shows I need improvement in reading the question and showing my work.
3. Throughout Unit 2, I improved the most at functions because in the start, I thought that a function could only be one line, but at the end of the unit, I learned about piecewise functions, and also learned how to better solve function.
4. One skill from this unit that I still need to work on is fitting a linear function on a scatter plot, because I often forget that when in a residual plot the point go down, it means that the function is negative, so I completely misplaced the line of best fit.
5. The biggest challenge for me on this assessment was interpreting the difference between correlation and causation, because often it is very hard to tell, its all up to finding specific details.
6. One strategy that helped me on this test was checking my answers after I finished them

Below is my reflection on this unit on Biological Evolution:

My current goal is to focus on having integrity in my assignments and turning in good quality work. This means putting in the effort needed to get the job done the best you can do, it also means not getting extra help from Al, parents or students when doing my assignments (unless you are intended to). I will submit my assignments on time and have a good way of keeping track of my work. Also, when I see others not having academic integrity I will report to a teacher.

I have always turned in my own work to the best of my ability, I don’t use AI or talk to my parents unless told to, I have not seen other not having academic integrity this semester so there is no problem.

I am proud of collaborating with my table buddies and always staying positive and helping each other.I think one of the main challenges I have faced in science is organizing my science notebook because there is a lot of stuff we take note of and sometimes I either forget or don’t write it in my table of contents.I am always prepared in class, I participate positively with my classmates, I always turn in work to the best of my ability.

During this unit, we learned about table tennis and how to serve and play. We had fun competing with each other so we had to learn placement, force, and timing of the return to prevent anticipation by opponent. Someone challenging this unit was competing with other people because lots of people have experience playing table tennis but I dont. Something I did well at was learning to be flexible by practicing all grips like handshake, pencil and Russian grip( I think those are the names)

This unit we found a interesting way to learn about grammar and vocabulary. We had to teach a alien ( AI) our language, and on the way we learned parts of speech ourselves. This fun and entertaining way to learn all the parts of speech: Noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, pronoun, conjunction, and articles. We also learned about connotation and denotation when writing. In the end, we asked the alien to write a paragraph about where it came from and why it came to earth, then we wrote a recommendation letter about whether we should try to work with the alien or if we should eliminate it.

This unit I learned how to identify and use connotation and denotation in my writing, connotation is when we use words that have an emotional meaning and usage to them, on the other hand, denotation is when a word is used for its dictionary meaning.

My aliens name is Veyna, it comes in peace and seeks to collaborate with our species to save both our people from environmental disruption. My Alien is able to use imagery and all the parts of speech in its paragraph, in all I think it did a good job and could improve by teaching my alien by teaching it slang.

This unit in math we learned about probabilities. We learned about two types of probability: theoretical and experimental, where theoretically the probability of something happening, and experimental which is in real life what would happen including a certain amount of randomness. Our main project at the end of the unit,(though not graded) was to make a game that includes probability of someone winning, losing, and getting the Grand prize, for this project me and my partner Oliver decided to make a game inspired by Plinko, but going further by having the ball go through the cup(with cut bottom) and going into the sides of two cups with a 50-50 percent chance of going on any of the cups, since it is quite hard to explain, see a photo of our game later in this post. Below is one of the advertisement’s for our project:

During the process of creating our our game, me and my partner Oliver faced challenges as we disagreed again and again throughout agreeing about the prizes, the design and the actual making of the design. In the end though, we tried to combine all our perspectives into our project.

I think that we did a good job in this project because we added lots of design techniques and themes to our project like Ancient Egypts pyramids and i even created a short story about the maze of the mummy in my video documentary, We also added a website where you can know your name in hieroglyphics, the writing that the ancient civilization of Egypt used to communicate. Here is a link if you want to know your name in hieroglyphics:https://www.penn.museum/cgi/hieroglyphsreal.php

Here is a photo of me and Oliver and our parents with our game:

Our theoretical probability of winning was 50%, losing was 50%, and grand prize was 12.5% chance. But according to the data, we had around 70% of winning, 29% chance of losing and nobody got the grand prize.

This unit in Science we learned about the interactions of matter including the law of conservation, atoms and atom structure, Physical and Chemical change, atomic structure and more.

Our main project for this unit was working with my partners Gio and Oliver to answer the question what chemical compounds are found in my favorite foods. We decided that we were going to make french fries.

There were many different atomic structures in our food, but we chose water and potato as our simple and and extended chemical structures. These were good choices because I think that water is very simple: H2O and potato starch had lots of different complicated structures that made it up.

Make a conclusion about signs of physical and chemical changes that occur in the preparation of your favorite food.

During the making of our food, some physical changes that occurred was cooking frying the potato, because the potato changed in size, texture and shape. Some chemical changes that I saw included change in mass, as some of the water and oil evaporated into the atmosphere(precipitate), change in odor, as the fries after being boiled in oil had a distinct odor that was not there before, there was a change in color between the fries that were boiled and the fries that were not boiled yet, the boiled fries had a slight darker yellow with a little brown on the edges, and they also were at a different, hotter temperature.

If I did this unit again, I would focus more on choosing the right food, easy to make, and also collaborating better. We could have chosen a food easier to preserve like candy canned or jared food. Next time if there was good weather I hope we can sell our food outside.